[PAINTING] June Painting Challenge: Royalty

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 1:30 pm

Wow!
thats brilliant damian!

the horses eye definetly gives it an 'evil' kind of feel

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 2:20 pm

@Damian, very etheareal Witch-king, he looks very good, especially how you've made the glowing eyes, cast light over the areas near it :yay:

@mastermanje, I standby what I said, I didn't mean 'bad' I meant 'worse'.

cal585 · **Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 3:00 pm

I actually finished! I was going to paint Theodred, but there were so many Rohan heroes already and Elendil was just begging for it. Here he is:

Being the middle of the night I had to take these with a desk lamp, so sorry some of the colours are a bit washed out. I had a bit of fun layering silver which is not normally something I bother with

. Quite proud of him though, especially the trim on his surcoat(?) as seen in the last picture (it goes right up as well). For nostaligia sake, here he is next to the second metal model I ever painted (this photo is not a submission):

I think I've managed to improve somewhat over the years. Just goes to show that there's hope for all of us!

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 3:02 pm

Very majestic Elendil :yay:

pity real monarchs aren't like that.

Green_Dragon · **Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 5:51 pm

Heres my entry, suprised myself by finishing haha

Minimal Monkey Saddle · **Joined:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:55 pm **Posts:** 463

Hi Guys. I had a bit of a brain meltdown and somehow convinced myself June had 31 days and found myself with less time that I had planned to finish off my entry. There's probably a lesson there but it's one that I will never learn.

Anyway, I think it's only the shield which I'm not totally happy with and the overall tone is what I was hoping for when I started.

Telchar · **Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 7:55 pm

GothmogtheWerewolf wrote:

Very majestic Elendil :yay:

pity real monarchs aren't like that.

The good ones (Elizabeth of Britain, Beatrix of the Netherlands) are.

mastermanje · **Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 8:12 pm

So much awesome entries this time :-D

VoiceofSauron · **Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 8:49 pm

That Witch-king is badass Damian, you managed to get a lot out of a relatively simple miniature, well done

warhammergamingnl · **Joined:** Sat Nov 05, 2011 9:06 pm **Posts:** 215

Nice entries, I really like the skin of the fellbeast, it's just brilliant!

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 8:55 pm

Telchar wrote:

GothmogtheWerewolf wrote:

Very majestic Elendil :yay:

pity real monarchs aren't like that.

The good ones (Elizabeth of Britain, Beatrix of the Netherlands) are.

I presume you mean Elizabeth I, not Elizabeth II then.

mastermanje · **Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 9:01 pm

Telchar wrote:

GothmogtheWerewolf wrote:

Very majestic Elendil :yay:

pity real monarchs aren't like that.

The good ones (Elizabeth of Britain, Beatrix of the Netherlands) are.

BBEEEEEAAAATTTRRRIIXXXXX! She's the queen of such a lovely country :-D

PowerofWill · **Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2012 11:16 pm

Here is my finished entry. There's more pics on my wip thread.

I cropped the images as MMS suggested, so hopefully they look a bit better.

-PoW

serrate · **Joined:** Fri Jun 08, 2012 5:14 pm **Posts:** 10

Well here's my first attempt for this board's contest, hope you like it!

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Sun Jul 01, 2012 5:37 am

Great work everyone (once again). I'll post up the voting tonight.

Telchar · **Posted:** Sun Jul 01, 2012 8:23 pm

GothmogtheWerewolf wrote:

I presume you mean Elizabeth I, not Elizabeth II then.

Both

mastermanje wrote:

BBEEEEEAAAATTTRRRIIXXXXX! She's the queen of such a lovely country :-D

I couldn't agree more.

And there are some very, very nice entries here. There goes my hope of a vote...

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Sun Jul 01, 2012 10:26 pm

Telchar wrote:

GothmogtheWerewolf wrote:

I presume you mean Elizabeth I, not Elizabeth II then.

Both

Can't stand Elizabeth II, or her family, I wish we could just get a President instead.

The Royalty in this thread are centainly too good to be true. I'm likemindedly torn between some amazing entries this month, I think there are tooo many Royals in LotR, which is the cause for all this mess. (A Good mess nonetheless)

Anyway, the Voting Thread won't put up itself (hint, hint).

Telchar · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2012 6:27 am

GothmogtheWerewolf wrote:

Can't stand Elizabeth II, or her family, I wish we could just get a President instead.

You'd have liked Tony Blair as head of state?

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:04 pm

No, but he technically was anyway as the Queen is in charge of nothing, but doesn't USA and New zealand etc have a Prime Minister as well as a President. I wish Oliver Cromwell's legacy had been more successful.

Damian · **Joined:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:59 pm **Posts:** 246

Ha, 'cos the British people can be trusted to vote in the right guy, yeah. With our national obsession with moronic celebrity cack.

We'll just end up copying the Americans and get Dynastic politics and nepotism. The Kennedys, The Bushes, a Clinton as president and his wife becomes Secretary of State. You get all the power because you were born or marry into a rich political family. Sounds like absolute monarchy and feudalism to me, not democracy.

It's not just the USA though, democratic countries make some dumb choices of who to lead them when personality and celebrity is brought into the mix, Berlusconi anyone?

Be careful what you wish for. Liz isn't Galadriel, but she's not Dubya either.

Back on Topic. This month has had loads of strong entries and I'm looking forward to seeing them all in a voting thread.

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